What I see as a motorcyclist eight years on - A tribute to Kiwi Biker

[FatMax]

Also need warnings for the appalling use of English.

Still lording it up over people I see.

[swbarnett]

The problem with the thinking of the more distance I do the better I will get is that while your own riding ability gets better the risk of being hit by others as a result of their fault becomes greater. For example I was once offered a job as a motorcycle courier and despite being an experienced rider turned it down as the job would have required riding 8 hours a day in all weather and traffic. When you are on the road for that amount of time each week you chance of coming to grief is much higher than a rider who commutes to work and back and is able to take the car/bus if wet.

Bollox.

I spent time as a courier in the '80s. I learned faster during that period than any other in my riding career. As long as you have the right mindset, the more time you ride the better you get. Those eight hour days became safer than any one hour ride I'd done previously.

[swbarnett]

I live on a sharp adverse camber 95 downhill degree bend with 3 hi viz signs for 35kph on the bank. Since I lived here we've had 5 cars down the bank who took your advice - every one a young guy. I know for sure the first guy who laughed it off crashed again and was killed in that crash 6 months later. I don't want anyone to die in my garden thanks.

Sounds to me like one of those corners that is the root of the problem. Those that are signposted higher than others of a similar curvature.

[caseye]

Eldog, two things mate, enjoy your ride, remember "ride your own ride" Also remember NEVER,FUCKING never go riding with that silly Bitch on here who can't make up HER mind which advise is best.
The OP has started a great thread, I'd hate to see it lost to bullshit spouting arsewipe posters who have No actual experience of taking control of their own destiny while riding a motorcycle or doing anything else in their boring screwed up life, I truly wish She'd just go away!

[eldog]

Eldog, two things mate, enjoy your ride, remember "ride your own ride" .
Also remember NEVER,FUCKING that silly Bitch.
The OP has started a great thread!

I do enjoy my riding my own rides
I dont remember doing that is there a video?

Yeah the OP did, a great improvement.

[WristTwister]

The problem with the thinking of the more distance I do the better I will get is that while your own riding ability gets better the risk of being hit by others as a result of their fault becomes greater. For example I was once offered a job as a motorcycle courier and despite being an experienced rider turned it down as the job would have required riding 8 hours a day in all weather and traffic. When you are on the road for that amount of time each week you chance of coming to grief is much higher than a rider who commutes to work and back and is able to take the car/bus if wet.

Distance doesn't necessarily equal experience, if that distance is travelled on the same roads in the same conditions.

The chances of having an accident are higher if you're on the road more, but then your skill in avoiding accidents improves with more experience, if we never wanted to get in an accident we might as well stay at home.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[Drew]

What you think is in conflict with what a cop told me last year that most police today consider it too dangerous to become bike cops? Maybe you just got lucky.

Being taken out isn't a certainty you fucken idiot.

[Akzle]

What you think is in conflict with what a cop told me last year that most police today consider it too dangerous to become bike cops? Maybe you just got lucky.

omfg. Hang yourself.

[Drew]

It is more a certainty the more you ride though you fucken idiot yourself.

You really are fucking thick. There are riders who have been riding for their whole motoring life, who have not been hit by another road user. Do you get that?

Since this proves that it is not a certainty that you will be hit, the chances of it happening DO NOT increase with each kilometer traveled.

Get it yet ya fucken moron?

[Jin]

Is only a matter of time before a cager takes one of us out. Inevitability :neo:

[Akzle]

Is only a matter of time before a cager takes one of us out. Inevitability :neo:

can we pick which one?

[Drew]

can we pick which one?

Ooohhhh, start a poll.

[SVboy]

It is more a certainty the more you ride though you fucken idiot yourself.

It is obvious from your reply you are under a lot of pressure to keep up. Best if you avoid group forums....

[Berries]

Is only a matter of time before a cager takes one of us out. Inevitability

If that really is your view why the hell would you bother riding?

Oh I see, one of us.

Can I pick?

[MarkH]

They must feel though for most modern vehicles they can hold their roadworthy state for a year otherwise they would not have changed the inspections from being 6 monthly.

Nope! If the tyres are legal they pass, a month later it might be that normal wear has made those tyres no longer legal.
There is no way for inspectors to fail a vehicle that doesn't have enough tread to last a year for a multitude of reasons including: different people run different numbers of kms, some go through tyres in less than a year so even a new tyre wont last a year, even if a tyre will be illegal in a couple of months they have no right to fail it today, etc.

Clearly having a WoF only means that at the time of inspection it passed, since then stuff could have worn or broken. To most people that would be self evident, to fucking idiots it may not be.